This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kbuild: pkg: use --transform option to prefix paths in tar to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kbuild-pkg-use-transform-option-to-prefix-paths-in-tar.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017 From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:17:07 +0900 Subject: kbuild: pkg: use --transform option to prefix paths in tar From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2dbc644ac62bbcb9ee78e84719953f611be0413d ] For rpm-pkg and deb-pkg, a source tar file is created. All paths in the archive must be prefixed with the base name of the tar so that everything is contained in the directory when you extract it. Currently, scripts/package/Makefile uses a symlink for that, and removes it after the tar is created. If you terminate the build during the tar creation, the symlink is left over. Then, at the next package build, you will see a warning like follows: ln: '.' and 'kernel-4.14.0+/.' are the same file It is possible to fix it by adding -n (--no-dereference) option to the "ln" command, but a cleaner way is to use --transform option of "tar" command. This option is GNU extension, but it should not hurt to use it in the Linux build system. The 'S' flag is needed to exclude symlinks from the path fixup. Without it, symlinks in the kernel are broken. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/package/Makefile | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -39,10 +39,9 @@ if test "$(objtree)" != "$(srctree)"; th false; \ fi ; \ $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion --save-scmversion; \ -ln -sf $(srctree) $(2); \ tar -cz $(RCS_TAR_IGNORE) -f $(2).tar.gz \ - $(addprefix $(2)/,$(TAR_CONTENT) $(3)); \ -rm -f $(2) $(objtree)/.scmversion + --transform 's:^:$(2)/:S' $(TAR_CONTENT) $(3); \ +rm -f $(objtree)/.scmversion # rpm-pkg # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/kbuild-pkg-use-transform-option-to-prefix-paths-in-tar.patch